Insights and Stories of FBC staff

So much Ont. livestock, so little corn: GMC

Jul. 3, 2008 at 11:24 pm CDT

Ontario is producing more cattle and hogs than it has home-grown corn to feed them, making those sectors uncompetitive on a cost basis, the George Morris Centre observes in a new report. The Guelph-based ag think tank on Thursday released a new report that warns those Ontario livestock sectors may […]

Restaurants pan proposed dairy price hike

Jul. 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm CDT

By FBC staff

AAFC to track more organic imports

Jul. 2, 2008 at 4:56 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Loosened variety registration rules proposed

Jul. 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm CDT

By FBC staff

N.B. invites farmers to apply for board seats

Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm CDT

By FBC staff

Ont. farm premises registry goes live

Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm CDT

OnTrace, the agency spearheading food traceability programs in Ontario, has launched an online, full-scale, provincewide Ontario Agri-food Premises Registry (OAPR). “The launch of the OAPR fulfills OnTrace’s first key mandate, which was to deliver a premises identification registry for agriculture and agri-food in Ontario,” said OnTrace CEO Brian Sterling in […]

By FBC staff

Bayer rolls out new hort-crop insecticide

Jul. 1, 2008 at 2:35 am CDT

Bayer CropScience has picked up registration in Canada for Movento, a new foliar insecticide, for use in apple, grape and some vegetable crops. The product, a Group 23 active ingredient called spirotetramat, has a new mode of action from tetramic acid, a class of chemistry that acts as a lipid […]

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Monsanto to charge RR seed fees by bag

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm CDT

Canola growers who buy Roundup Ready seed for 2009 will be charged license fees by the bag, not by the acre. Monsanto Canada announced Friday that it will drop its $15 per acre license fee for Roundup Ready canola technology, starting Sept. 1, 2008 for the 2009 growing season, in […]

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B.C. BSE case was five-year-old dairy cow

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:17 pm CDT

A five-year-old dairy cow from an unnamed region of British Columbia was Canada’s 13th case of BSE, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Friday. Though the animal was born well after Ottawa originally imposed its 1997 ban on the use of ruminant tissues in feed for ruminant livestock, CFIA said […]

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Senate passes biofuel mandate bill

Jun. 27, 2008 at 4:04 pm CDT

Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed the federal government’s biofuel bill, giving the government authority to create mandatory minimum renewable fuel content in Canadian gasoline and diesel. The government plans to have a five per cent renewable fuel mandate for gasoline by 2010, and a two per cent renewable content rule […]

By FBC staff